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I've fallen in love with Windows Media Player within the last couple of days. The WMA format takes up much less space than MP3's and sound equal-if-not-better to CD quality @ just a 192bit rate. Rips cd's and automatically sorts them for you, and even displays the album's folder as the actual CD cover! it's just TOO convenient, I don't understand why people hate it so much! |
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i heard it spys on you, keeps an eye on what your listening to and watching... i wish i new more about it tho. |
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WMA is never going to sound better than the original CD. I think the digital rights management and the closed proprietary format scares a lot of people off. The player used to keep track of what CDs and DVDs you used, but according to Microsoft did not send that information anywhere. I think after the public outcry they gave you the ability to turn off that feature, which was used legitimately for caching disc information. |
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Only sends out what music you're listening to. That's all. You can turn it off. |
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I compared directly, the CD playing, and a 192BIT .wma file of the same song, and the WMA actually sounded better. That's probably the CD player, tho. |
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The reason why I hate it so much is that it uses an assload of your computer's resources. WinAmp by contrast is remarkable in how little of your CPU and RAM it uses. Also I must admit I'm a little uncomfortable with the WMA file format which if accepted will be used by Microsoft to drive all competition from the marketplace. |
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Don't trust your ears until you do a double-blind test. See for a lot of good (but technical) information on audio formats and listening tests. |
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lol, how can a compressed version of a CD sound better than the CD it originated from? I would say you conducted a none scientific test there :) |
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it was a shite cd player :/ |
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MP3 is the king....WMA is only good at lower bit-rates... "--R3MIX" params get as close to CD as possibly....there are even extra settings in LAME (the enconder) to go even further... --alt-preset exteeme or -alt-preset insane are good for archival purposes (i.e. they are 99% as good a CD but filesize is big compared to --r3mix settings...).... & WMA is by MS....and I hate all that DRM business.... |
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i think if you are just chilling out it doesn't make a difference.. |
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My hearing is messed up anyway, everything I listen to sounds the same these days... ...or maybe I am just getting old :) |
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